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| Brexit: 2-Yr Timeline On UK-EU Trade Agreement Realistic | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 4 2017, 01:48 PM (9 Views) | |
| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 01:48 PM Post #1 |
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(The Guardian) May says two-year timetable for agreeing shape of UK-EU trade agreement realistic --Theresa May also gave an interview to Sky News in Jordan. In it, she insisted that it would be possible to agree the shape of the UK’s trade relations with the EU after Brexit within two years. But she stopped short of claiming that a trade deal could be signed within two years. The EU’s draft negotiating guidelines, released on Friday, say the UK will only be able to sign a trade deal after it has left. Asked about this, May said: There’s obviously a legal situation in terms of how the EU can conduct trade negotiations. I’m clear that by the point at which we leave the EU, it’s right that everybody should know what the future arrangements, the future relationship, that future partnership between us and the European Union will be. That’s the sensible thing, it’s the pragmatic way to look at this, and I believe that’s what we will do. Asked if she believed this can be done within two years, she replied: “Yes.” May’s answer suggests that the government would be happy to settle for agreeing a framework trade agreement within two years. The trade agreement proper could then be finalised and agreed later, during a transition period. In an interview with the Independent published today, Sigmar Gabriel, the German foreign minister, suggests that May’s two-year timetable is unrealistic. He says: We are as keen as the UK is to complete both agreements [the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and the future trade relationship] as soon as possible. First, we have to get things right on the orderly withdrawal, then we will want to talk as soon as possible about our future relationship and get as far as we can within the next two years. However, I don’t want to speculate on time frames at a time when negotiations have not even started yet. Both sides must recognise that an agreement on a wide-ranging partnership will be quite a laborious endeavour. |
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| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:17 PM Post #2 |
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(The Guardian) Open Britain, the group campaigning for a “soft” Brexit, thinks it is significant that Theresa May told Sky News earlier that she does not expect to sign a UK-EU trade deal within two years. It issued this comment from the Labour MP Owen Smith. Bit by bit, the main planks of the prime minister’s Brexit strategy are falling away. Today, she has admitted that we will not have the time to agree a trade deal with the EU before the article 50 period is finished. The Government have promised to deliver a trade deal that gives us the ‘exact same benefits’ as we have now as a member of the single market. If we leave the EU before a trade deal is signed, this promise will be broken, as our economy will go off a cliff-edge, hitting our businesses with punishing tariffs and putting jobs at risk. Ministers have to prevent this hardest of hard Brexits by at least agreeing a transition deal with the EU that would keep us in the single market before a new trade deal can be signed. |
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